The madhouse on Madison Street /
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| Author / Creator: | Murray, George, 1909-1996. |
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| Imprint: | Chicago : Follett Pub. Co., 1965. |
| Description: | xii, 432 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2143970 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I.A bright new page. Moe Koenigsberg's dead man ; The madhouse in high gear ; The rewrite man is born ; "Sell 'em or eat 'em" ; Nobody ever got raped ; Mr. Hearst's hatchet men ; Clarence Darrow sells out cheap ; All in a day's work ; Jack Lait meets the president
- Part II. The era of wonderful nonsense. The coming of Howey and Carson ; Walter Howey vows vengeance ; Big man from the Klondike and Indian Prince ; The Pancho Villa raid alumni ; The worst kind of scandal ; W.R. Jr., gets a spotted calf ; One way to hire a good editor
- Part III. The period of deadly sin. Carson rides again ; The way the story was got ; How not to make a "San Simeon special" ; Harry Romanoff and the doll ; Confessions a la Romanoff ; Buddy McHugh studies the media ; Austin O'Malley's uncracked cases ; The play's the thing ; The saint swings a wicked map ; The madhouse tradition is carried on ; Big Jake stops a bullet ; Casey gets his credentials ; The judge is taken to dinner
- Part IV. The papers go into decline. The hand of a dead hoodlum ; John Dienhart's connections ; Charlie Blake's quints
- and the sextuplets ; The death of a newspaper ; So Bill Drury has to die ; The madhouse closes its doors.